Research
Development of rewrite-based tools for the
specification, analysis and verification of complex systems (e.g., biochemical systems, financial systems, programming languages, software applications).
Topics:
Programming/specification languages: Types, Semantics.
Rewrite-based computation models: term and graph rewriting, lambda-calculus, interaction nets.
Security and Privacy: Access control, cloud-IoT architectures, privacy policies.
Software Systems Group
Publications
Current and recent projects:
Nominal Techniques, with University of Brasilia.
Axiomatic modelling of obligations for privacy enforcement, with University of Porto, funded by London Mathematical Society
Matching Algorithms, with Rangewell and
TapSW, funded by Innovate UK.
Dynamic Access Control, funded by EOARD and University of Texas
PORGY - Interactive Analysis and Visualisation of Port Graph Rewriting Systems, with INRIA and University of Bordeaux.
Dependent types for nominal terms, Royal Society International Joint Project (with University ORT Uruguay).
Journals:
Logic and Computation - Rewriting Corner
Discover Internet-of-Things. Springer Nature. Editorial Board member.
Journal of Automated Reasoning Special Issue on Linearity
LMCS Special Issue - CSL 2020
LMCS Special Issue - RTA/TLCA 2015
Events:
Leeds Computability Days June 2022. Invited Speaker.
CODASPY 2022 The 12th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy. April 2022. PC co-chair.
FoSSaCS 2022 25th International Conference on Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures. ETAPS. PC member.
WRLA 2022 14th International Workshop on Rewriting Logic and its Applications, ETAPS. Munich, April 2022. PC member.
CiE 2022 Int. Conferencec Computability in Europe, Swansea, UK, July 2022. PC member.
TERMGRAPH, a bi-anual series of Int. Workshops. SC member.
LOPSTR, Int. Symposium on Logic-based program synthesis and transformation. SC member.
REF 2021 Panel Member
EACLS Executive Board
EAPLS Board (General Secretary), EAPLS "Best Dissertation Award" expert committee (co-chair)
IFCoLog Advisory Board
Current and former PhD Students:
Abiar Al-Homaimeedi,
Fahad Alarifi,
Asad Ali,
Anna Bamberger,
Christophe Calvès,
Washington de Carvalho Segundo,
Jesus Dominguez Alvarez,
Nneka Ene,
Elliot Fairweather,
Fabien Fleutot,
Jenjira Jaimunk,
Lionel Khalil,
Chris Munhuweyi,
Olivier Namet,
Daniele Nantes,
Ana Cristina Rocha Oliveira,
Nikolaos Siafakas,
Francois-Régis Sinot,
Jeffrey Terrell,
Janos Varga,
Matthew Walker.
Teaching
Programming Language Design (5CCS2PLD). Book:
Programming Languages and Operational Semantics: A Concise Overview
Computation Models (6CCS3COM). Book: Models of computation - An introduction to computability theory.